William Goyen, The House of Breath

"I wanted to putt my hand on this hand and hold it still under mine, made still by his made still. Oh he was bright and I was dark and I gave him all my darkness on that ship; but we joined, for all good things in the world, and to find somethin together; and loved, I never knew I could do it and was afraid; and on the bow of the ship that night that he said, "What have we done Christy"I said, wonderin too, "But somethin good will come of this, I know somethin good will come of this..."Only sorrow came."